“Can you believe this b-s****!!!” On September 16, 2015, Ariane de Rothschild expressed her annoyance to Jeffrey Epstein in an English-language email that reflected the informal relationship between the two correspondents. To her American friend, the French-German head of the Swiss banking group Edmond de Rothschild forwarded a message from Jacob Rothschild of the British branch of the financial dynasty. Epstein asked her to call him, stepping in as a mediator in the conflict that then pitted Ariane de Rothschild, in Geneva, against a rival and another family member, David de Rothschild, based in Paris.
David, at the head of his investment bank in France, and Ariane, who became the all-powerful leader of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in Switzerland in January 2015 thanks to the support of her husband, Benjamin (who died in 2021), were at war with each other. David provoked Ariane’s anger when he renamed his firm, Paris Orléans, as Rothschild & Co and began presenting himself as the “Rothschild Group.” She saw this as a usurpation of the prestigious family name, which could damage her standing with investors and wealthy clients. This battle over the name only ended in 2018, when the two parties reached an agreement on how it could be used.
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